Dr. Dave Huber, Soil Scientist 🔥

Come learn about soil health!

I'm an American farmer — empty USDA offices means fewer family farms Former USDA conservationist warns that staffing cuts threaten popular farm programs like EQIP and CSP, despite strong congressional support for funding.

Perspectives on how to best support our producers

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Schematic cross-sections showing transects used to sample the buried Brady Soil on loess tablelands in the western Great Plains. A longer transect downwind from the windward tableland edge allowed sampling at various depths of burial by loess. A shorter transect on the eroding table edge sampled the soil at increasingly shallow depths resulting from erosion.

Happy to share another paper from the loess tablelands of the Great Plains, on organic C in buried soils and how it becomes susceptible to decomposition. We sampled the Brady Soil along transects of decreasing depth of burial and increasing erosional exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#AGU25 in New Orleans

I’ve got one, love it

Come say hi at #AGU25 and hear about our work on post-wildfire water quality issues.

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Yes, baffled by their assertions

More soil celebrations! Soil properties greatly impact water storage & transport across the landscape. In eastern Oregon, geologic events have continually changed the distribution of soils & reshaped the hydrology.

Here we’re looking at the changes induced by basalt flows & recent ash deposits.

Connections Between Soil Health and Human Health - Soil Health Institute Connections Between Soil Health and Human Health Healthy soils contribute to a range of ecosystem functions in the environment, such as sustaining plant and animal productivity and biodiversity, maint...

Happy International Soils Day! With likely 100k plus soils worldwide directly and indirectly supporting humanity, it’s difficult to overstate how important they are to our wellbeing.

Don’t let soils go unnoticed, dig into how soils impact your lives!

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Teaching an Ecohydrology field course focused on soils here starting in March, so need to get some soil pits characterized beforehand 😅 NCSS only has 4 pits in the Umatilla Mtns I think

Had the same question here at the Starkey. When will digging soil pits be tolerable?

Gorgeous! Love that area

That’s actually intact bedrock, just has some of the clay rich soil stuck to it below.

We do have good E horizons out there just not in these two pits.

Yes, me or Seyfried, who wore it better 🥸

Come back and visit sometime!

Spent the week at the USFS Starkey Experimental Forest in north-central Oregon (near La Grande).

Extensive old basalt flows capped by ~7500 year old ash deposits that drastically changed the distribution of vegetation, making for interesting hydrology today.

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

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Facehugger Tail (Realistic Version) by indianin666 MakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models I love the facehugger design from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1116392I have three printed from this design. However, I have a problem with the tail, which does not match the original from the mo...

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One of the benefits of doing a lot of 3D printing for work is knowing how to accessorize your pumpkin for #Halloween

Right!

Anywhere from cobbles to soup!

Post-fire debris flow characterization to understand sediment impacts on river and reservoir water quality.

In Alberta, the Punks Are Taking Over | The Tyee The scene is galvanizing against a common enemy: the United Conservative Party.

The rise in punk and hardcore’s prevalence in Alberta is to create a voice against the UCP, says one vocalist. 🎤 #abpoli 

Comic. [3-column table with headers Period, My Favorite Part, and My Biggest Complaint] [Row 1] P: *Precambrian*, MFP: Life develops, MBC: Snowball Earth episodes [Row 2] P: Cambrian, MFP: Trilobites!, MBC: Evolution could stand to calm down a little [Row 3] P: Ordovician, MFP: Earth might have had rings, MBC: Scary volcanic eruption in North America [Row 4] P: Silurian, MFP: First land animals, MBC: Earth’s newfound mold problem [Row 5] P: Devonian, MFP: Big mountains in Boston, MBC: Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was *armor* [Row 6] P: Carboniferous, MFP: Cool forests, MBC: Bugs too big [Row 7] P: Permian, MFP: Pangea, MBC: Google “The Great Dying” [Row 8] P: Triassic, MFP: Tanystropheus [dinosaur with extremely long neck next to tiny person for scale], MBC: Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan [Row 9] P: Jurassic, MFP: Birds, MBC: Parasitoid wasps [Row 10] P: Cretaceous, MFP: Raptors, MBC: Raptors [Row 11] P: Paleogene, MFP: Pretty horseys!!!, MBC: Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum [Row 12] P: Neogene, MFP: Forests of *Dracaena* Dragonblood Trees, MBC: Zanclean Flood [Row 13] P: Quaternary, MFP: Burrito invented, MBC: Whoever picked this name for the third period of the Cenozoic

Geologic Periods

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You’re welcome. And thanks, Bellingham.

Submit to our fall GSA session, T186. Critical Zone Science: Intersection of Processes Linked to Geomorphology, Ecology, Fire and Climate

Science philanthropy faces a new reality As the ground under American science shifts in troubling and unpredictable ways, questions have arisen as to how philanthropies should respond. Having recently led a private foundation that supports s...

Philanthropies ... rely on a solid base of federal support for science to make their own relatively small contributions impactful. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A New Generation of Tiny Tracking Tags Offers a Fresh Look at the Lives of Little Fish Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a tag the size of a grain of rice that can also work underwater

A New Generation of Tiny Tracking Tags Offers a Fresh Look at the Lives of Little Fish www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a...

US farm agency fires 70 foreign researchers following national security review The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it has fired 70 foreign contract researchers after a national security review intended to secure the U.S. food supply from adversaries including China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.

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Idaho Department of Water Resources signs order predicting water shortfall  - East Idaho News TWIN FALLS (Idaho Capital Sun) — The Idaho Department of Water Resources has issued a new order finding that the Twin Falls Canal Co. may experience a water shortfall during this summer’s irrigation s...

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University Leaders Propose New Research Funding Model Some lawmakers and the Trump administration have criticized the government’s long-standing model for reimbursing universities for indirect research costs.

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